Thousands of families in Louisville are intimately familiar with the devastating reality of childhood lead exposure, but thousands more may be completely unaware that a dangerous neurotoxin is ...

The Pennsylvania Legislature is on the verge of taking two important steps to help reduce childhood lead poisoning by advancing a childhood lead testing bill in the Senate and including funding in the ...

When you're in your house, you expect to be safe. If your home was built before 1980, though, it's possible that you have dangerous materials in place that were used as part of home construction ...

UNDER BACK TO THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE FOR A TEST WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF OLDER HOMES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. WITH OLDER PAINT. DOCTORS SAY KIDS IN THE GRANITE STATE NEED TO GET THEIR LEAD LEVELS CHECKED ONCE ...

The City of Trenton wants to, quite literally, get the lead out. Out of its parks. Out of people's homes. Out of its schools. And, to step up that effort, officials have announced the next step they ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Is there lead and asbestos at your kids' school? In North Carolina, testing for lead in school water used to be voluntary, but now a law has made that testing mandatory. The ...

The city of Erie’s rental registration program currently does not require units to be tested for the presence of lead-based paint. Aaron Snippert, the executive director of the Erie Redevelopment ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

Some North Carolina schools and daycares will soon be tested for lead and asbestos. State leaders told the State Board of Education on Wednesday the plan so far is to start with elementary schools and ...

More than 1,000 children tested positive for lead poisoning in New Hampshire in 2023, according to a recently published report from state officials. That’s the highest number of kids with dangerous ...

HEALTH EXPERTS ABOUT THEIR FINDINGS. YEAH, SOME PUBLIC HEALTH EXPERTS TELL US THESE NUMBERS ARE UP AGAIN, BECAUSE IN THE WAKE OF THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC, MORE KIDS ARE GETTING TESTED AGAIN. IT’S ALL ...

Preliminary soil testing results from the areas surrounding the Eaton Fire showed that lead levels exceeded state and federal guidelines. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said the ...